. >> one thing else we should at least get a chance to see, the highly touted pitcher stephen strasburg... >> schwanbeck: we tried three times to get former granite ceo don cornwell to explain why wtvh merged with a competitor in syracuse. but he declined, as noted in this email from cornwell. he did issue, though, a published statement when he stepped down as ceo in 2009. >> your reaction to don? >> what exactly did he accomplish? i can't point to a single great accomplishment by a granite television station in syracuse, other than running the place into the ground. i don't mean to be harsh, but, you know, to make a laudatory statement when you are basically waving the white flag is not just tone-deaf; it's infuriating to the people who really, really put their hearts and their souls and their blood and their guts into trying to build something, you know. we knew we had a good operation at channel 5. we knew we had longtime journalists, longtime photographers-- photographers you could send out as journalists and they'd come back with a story because they knew what they were talking abo